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Re: rsa configuration
> rsa public key is represented as {modulus ,exponent} , my question
> is should I configure both
> modulus and exponent (no certificates in my implementation )
> . I have seen in cisco router that it has option of configuring
> rsa public key as just a string not seperately as mod and exponent , I
> wonder how cisco router
> is splitting that key (into mod and exponent)
> any pointer would be of great help
The Cisco router we have accepts/displays an RSA Public Key in the ASN.1 DER form
of a SubjectPublicKeyInfo object. This object is defined in X.509, and also in
PKCS#6 and RFC 2459, among other places. The SubjectPublicKeyInfo includes the
algorithm & key; the key contains the modulus & exponent.
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